canary
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They compared the monitoring approach to a canary in a coal mine because it may provide an efficient way to detect major shifts in this climate-regulating circulation.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
Honoring her great-grandfather Cole Grove with the canary metaphor of the former, both songs celebrate personal salvation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
“I think South Hadley’s perhaps the canary in the coal mine.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
"In a few years' time, I think we'll look back on London as the canary in the coalmine. But I hope we'll also see it as the place where the fightback began," Sir Sadiq added.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Or were they particularly fragile canaries in an epidemiological coal mine?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Doji candles in January and May 2018 served as canaries in the coal mine, guiding investors to anticipate a large drawdown.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
“Black women, we’re always the canaries in the coal mine,” she added.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
When it comes to signs of economic disruption, logistics companies are the canaries in the coal mine.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
“Oh, yes—miners used to bring canaries with them to gauge oxygen levels in the mine. If the canary died, they knew the oxygen was running out and they’d better get out of there.”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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